In my opinion, the "pursuit of happiness" is something that is a made up lie created by the great deceiver! Yes you can be happy and want to be happy. But you can't be "happy" as people put it, without Christ.
Happy-what does happy really mean?
Something fun?
Something that brings you complete joy and fufillment?
No worries?
Well you can have fun. But it doesn't last long. The things that last long are the joy, fufillment and the no worries. How to obtain those things? hmmmm... Only through the blood of Christ.
Will that take care of your "pursuit of happiness"?
Can we please change that to the pursuit of Christ? Doesn't that sound better? That should be our goal in life, not the pursuit of worldly happiness. Once we put our priorities in order and start pursuing Christ and learning and living how He lived, we will learn contentment. Contentment is joy and fulfillment but in Christ.
"For I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need." Phil. 4:11b-12
Now doesn't that sound like something worth pursuing?
:D Amen.
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ReplyDeleteA very timely message, Ben!! Thanks for putting things back into their proper perspective! : )
ReplyDeleteWhat is your only comfort in life and in death???
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that i with body and soul, both in life and in death, am not my own, but belong to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. Who with His precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and so preserves me, that without the will of my Father in heaven, not a hair can fall from my head. and has redeemed me from all the power of the devil......and make me heartily willing and ready henceforth to live unto Him.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember all of it.. that's all I remember!